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Title

Cardiovascular disease in the elderly / edited by Wilbert S. Aronow, Jerome L. Fleg.

Publication

New York : M. Dekker, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Tresch, Donald D., 1935-
• Aronow, Wilbert S.

Description

xxii, 847 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm.

Series Statement

Fundamental and clinical cardiology ; 48

Uniform Title

Fundamental and clinical cardiology ; v. 48.

Subject

• Geriatric cardiology
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Cardiovascular Diseases > physiopathology

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Cardiovascular disease in the elderly patient. 2nd ed. c1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Series Introduction / Samuel Z. Goldhaber -- Foreword / William R. Hazzard -- 1. Normal Aging Changes of the Cardiovascular System / Jerome L. Fleg and Edward Lakatta -- 2. Echocardiographic Measurements in Elderly Patients Without Clinical Heart Disease / Julius M. Gardin and Cheryl K. Nordstrom -- 3. Morphological Features of the Elderly Heart / William Clifford Roberts -- 4. Cardiovascular Drug Therapy in the Elderly / William H. Frishman, Angela Cheng-Lai and Wilbert S. Aronow -- 5. Systemic Hypertension in the Elderly / William H. Frishman, Mohammed J. Iqbal and Gregory Yesenski -- 6. Hyperlipidemia in the Elderly: When Is Drug Therapy Justified? / John LaRosa -- 7. Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly / Gabriel Gregoratos and Gordon Leung -- 8. Epidemiology of Coronary Heart Disease in the Elderly / Pantel Vokonas and William B. Kannel -- 9. Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease in the Elderly / Roberto Corti, Antonio Fernandez-Ortiz and Valentin Fuster -- 10. Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease in the Elderly / Wilbert S. Aronow and Jerome L. Fleg -- 11. Angina in the Elderly / Wilbert S. Aronow and William H. Frishman -- 12. Therapy of Acute Myocardial Infarction / Michael W. Rich -- 13. Management of the Older Patient After Myocardial Infarction / Wilbert S. Aronow -- 14. Surgical Management of Coronary Artery Disease in the Elderly / Edward A. Stemmer and Wilbert S. Aronow -- 15. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the Elderly / Charles L. Laham, Mandeep Singh and David R. Holmes, Jr. -- 16. Exercise Training in the Older Cardiac Patients / Philip A. Ades -- 17. Aortic Valve Disease in the Elderly / Wilbert S. Aronow and Melvin B. Weiss -- 18. Mitral Regurgitation, Mitral Stenosis, and Mitral Annular Calcification in the Elderly / Melvin D. Cheitlin and Wilbert S. Aronow -- 19. Endocarditis in the Elderly / Thomas C. Cesario and David A. Cesario -- 20. Cardiomyopathies in the Elderly / John Arthur McClung, Wilbert S. Aronow, Robert Belkin and Michael Nanna -- 21. Thyroid Heart Disease in the Elderly / Steven R. Gambert, Charles R. Albreht and Myron Miller -- 22. Heart Failure / Dalane W. Kitzman and Jerome L. Fleg -- 23. Suprventricular Tachyarrhythmias in the Elderly / Wilbert S. Aronow and Carmine Sorbera -- 24. Ventricular Arrhythmias in the Elderly / Wilbert S. Aronow and Carmine Sorbera -- 25. Bradyarrhythmias and Cardiac Pacemakers in the Elderly / Anthony D. Mercando -- 26. Cerebrovascular Disease in the Elderly Patient / Jesse Weinberger -- 27. Evaluation of Sycope in the Elderly Patient / Scott Hummel and Mathew S. Maurer -- 28. Anticoagulation in the Elderly / Jonathan L. Halperin -- 29. Acute Pulmonary Embolism in the Elderly / Paul D. Stein and Fadi Kayali -- 30. Peripheral Vascular Disease in the Elderly / Roy M. Fujitani, Ganesha B. Perera, Ian L. Gordon and Samuel E. Wilson -- 31. Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Treatment of Elderly Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery / Rita A. Falcone, Roy C. Ziegelstein and Lee A. Fleisher -- 32. Ethical Decisions and Quality of Life in Older Patients with Cardiovascular Disease / Lofty L. Basta and Henry D. McIntosh.

ISBN

0824747690 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2004555404

OCLC

• ocm56481868
• SCSB-5177779

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries